Proving Immortality Starting with Hextech Runes

Sea of ​​Storms, Guest Room on the Southern Merchant Ship.

Chen Xu, with gray hair, sat cross-legged inside, his mind sinking into the jade slip space, repeatedly deducing the mysteries of the "Pingnan Taiyi Spear Technique".

The journey across the stormy sea far exceeded Chen Xu's expectations.

According to Nan Longyue, even if they are lucky and avoid the most dangerous areas, it will still take more than three months to reach the inner sea.

However, Chen Xu wasn't in a hurry, since he still had a lot of things to do in Nanjiang.

The time spent at sea was perfect for studying the spear technique, so it didn't get in the way.

Of course, it would be even better if we could encounter a few more fish swarms.

……

Half a month later, in the Dark City of Nanjiang.

Inside Chen Xu's cave, the spiritual energy was incredibly rich thanks to the second-tier spirit-gathering array.

At this moment, he was tending to the newly opened medicinal field to grow second-tier spiritual herbs.

With a flick of his sleeve, dozens of seeds fell evenly into the spiritual soil.

These are all second-tier spiritual herb seeds selected from Qingyi's storage bag.

Chen Xu has no requirements for second-tier spiritual herbs for the time being; most of them are prepared for Shu Changsheng.

With abundant spiritual herbs to nourish it, mass production of second-tier spiritual herbs is not impossible.

However, it does contain several ingredients needed for making poisons, such as the Shadow Vine and the Rotten Heart Orchid.

This technique was prepared for the "Insidious Poison Palm." Even after mastering this palm technique, the power of the poison can be continuously enhanced.

Now, the clone of Hansongmen is about to head to the ruins, and the danger is unpredictable.

The main body also had to strengthen its cultivation of techniques.

After finishing with the medicinal herb field, Chen Xu immediately returned to the main room and began cultivating.

The Yin Poison Palm technique has now been mastered, and its toxicity is fierce and domineering.

If an ordinary cultivator in the early stages of Foundation Establishment does not have a powerful magic weapon or a way to detoxify, they will be injured upon contact with it.

Chen Xu had already mastered the art of talismans, and his success rate in drawing second-tier talismans was quite high.

They have also made great progress in formations.

However, there has been no progress in alchemy, as a suitable formula has not yet been found.

In addition, the upgraded "Beast Taming and Spirit Communication Technique" was finally completed in the past two days.

He created the prototype of a beast-taming space within his sea of ​​consciousness.

The space is small, only about ten meters in diameter.

However, since the Beast Taming Space is not yet fully formed, it is not very stable.

We need to find some high-grade materials that contain spatial power to stabilize it.

Therefore, Chen Xu has not yet moved Xiao Jin and Shu Changsheng inside.

As for the long-stalled "Mysterious Bone True Demon Art," its success or failure hinges on this moment...

With a thought, Chen Xu took out a second-tier earth spirit mushroom that he had bought at a cost of a lot of spirit stones from his storage bag.

This item contains a heavy amount of earth-attribute energy, and Chen Xu plans to use it to break through the first level of the "Mysterious Bone True Demon Art".

He formed hand seals, and the spiritual energy within his body followed the trajectory of the Skin Refining Chapter of the "Mysterious Bone True Demon Art," beginning to refine the Earth Spirit Mushroom.

Several hours later, the last trace of energy of the earth spirit mushroom was finally completely refined.

At the same time, Chen Xu felt his skin burning hot, and wisps of blue-black demonic energy seeped out from his body, eventually merging into his skin and disappearing.

As the demonic energy completely merged, the intense heat quickly subsided.

Chen Xu opened his eyes, a glint of light flashing in them.

After many twists and turns, the first level of the "Mysterious Bone True Demon Art" skin-refining technique has finally been broken through at this moment.

The difficulty of cultivating this body-refining demonic art far exceeds that of ordinary cultivation techniques; even the first level of the introductory skin-refining technique is challenging.

It took so much effort and resources to break through to the Foundation Establishment stage.

He silently pondered the situation, preparing to put it to the test in actual combat.

The moment the thought arose, Chen Xu immediately stopped cultivating his gray-haired clone.

He then took out the mysterious jade slip and immersed his consciousness into it.

Within the jade slip space, with a slight thought, the space rippled, and a lithe, red-blooded rat phantom appeared before him.

What was summoned was the phantom of the rat, who was in the early stages of Foundation Establishment.

After the phantom of the rat appeared, it immediately unleashed its ultimate power, the [Blood Moon Cave].

A crimson blood moon, the size of a human head, materialized out of thin air.

Immediately afterwards, a red blood shadow with extreme speed rushed out.

Faced with this fierce and swift attack, Chen Xu made no attempt to defend himself.

The blood-red shadow, accompanied by a whooshing sound, slammed into Chen Xu's chest.

But he only felt a sharp force rushing against his skin, yet it couldn't break through his skin at all.

Chen Xu looked down at his intact chest, feeling utterly shocked.

This "Mysterious Bone True Demon Art" is far too domineering.

Having only mastered the first level of Skin Refinement, one can withstand attacks from early Foundation Establishment cultivators. No wonder this technique is so difficult to master.

……

The following day, at Hansong Gate, in the Mofu Peak cave.

After Chen Xu finished the spiritual meal that Xiao Jin had carefully prepared, he put Xiao Jin and Xiao Yun, who was standing next to him, back into his beast-taming ring.

Just as I pushed open the stone door of the cave, there was a fishpond not far away.

Upon seeing him emerge from seclusion, several outer sect disciples responsible for managing the affairs immediately put down their work and bowed respectfully, saying, "Greetings, Elder Chen!"

Chen Xu nodded slightly in response and then flew directly towards the main peak.

A moment later, the atmosphere became solemn in the side hall of the main peak council.

Wen Tianhe sat upright in the main seat, his sleeves fluttering as two storage bags landed in front of Chen Xu and Li Yuan respectively.

"There are some protective items inside, enough to meet our needs for this trip."

Chen Xu and Li Yuan bowed simultaneously and said in unison, "Thank you for the reward, Master!"

Wen Tianhe turned his gaze to Li Yuan, his tone leaving no room for doubt: "Li Yuan, on this trip, you will assist Chen Xu from the sidelines."

Li Yuan immediately replied respectfully, "Yes, Master! This disciple will certainly do his utmost to assist Junior Brother Chen in completing this important task!"

Chen Xu remained calm, his gaze sweeping over Li Yuan beside him without leaving a trace, but he immediately sensed trouble.

Although there had been speculation that Li Yuan might be related to Wen Tianhe, the feeling was still somewhat complicated after learning that Li Yuan was also Wen Tianhe's disciple.

After all, the other party should have some suspicions about what I had done to Li Yuan before.

More importantly, Wen Tianhe sent Li Yuan into the ruins in order to find something.

Then I've ruined the sect leader's plans. I wonder if that brat Li Yuan has told the sect leader.

Judging from his humble and obsequious demeanor, is he completely unaware, or... is he acting?

If he hadn't mentioned the true story of what happened in the ruins to Wen Tianhe... that would be interesting...

At this moment, Wen Tianhe said no more and took out a flying boat.

Afterwards, the sect leader took out a large flying boat and temporarily handed it over to Chen Xu.

He ordered Chen Xu and Li Yuan to lead the disciples to Qishan.

Outside the hall, including Chen Xu and Li Yuan, five hundred disciples of the Cold Pine Sect had assembled in the plaza.

Ten Foundation Establishment cultivators and nine hundred and ninety Qi Refining disciples participated in the expedition to the ruins.

Among them, seven were in the early stage of Foundation Establishment and three were in the middle stage of Foundation Establishment.

Now that Li Yuan has also successfully established his foundation, Chen Xu should, in principle, call him senior brother.

However, Chen Xu still retained the title of Fellow Daoist Li.

"Fellow Daoist Li, let's board the boat." Chen Xu glanced at Li Yuan and gave the order in a calm tone.

He took out an object, poured spiritual energy into it, and the flying boat expanded with the wind, slowly opening the hatch.

Li Yuan's smile remained unchanged, seemingly unconcerned by Chen Xu's deliberate aloofness, and he nodded repeatedly, "Fellow Daoist Chen, please go first!"